"One person in Helsinki can quickly write the core of a sophisticated operating
system."

--John Warden, lead attorney at Microsoft

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MOTOMING 2 Has Arrived As Update By Motorola

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| The first MOTOMING (Motorola A1200) was quite the nice handheld, because it
| ran on Linux and had a cool business card recognition program that would
| automatically insert all of that pertinent information into a phonebook
| contact. Â*
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| Motorola plans to launch its next-generation Linux-based "Ming" handsets in
| the second quarter of 2008, with the hand input intelligence handsets to be
| available in both high-end and entry-level versions, according to Bill Chen,
| general manager of of mobile device business at Motorola Taiwan. Previously,
| the Ming was released only in a high-end version. Â* Â*
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| Cell phones traditionally have used proprietary operating systems, fragmented
| even among one manufacturer's products. Motorola and other vendors have also
| opened up phone platforms through the Java and BREW software environments.
| Linux will help to further expand the community of developers for software,
| which is becoming an increasingly important part of mobile phones, said
| Christy Wyatt, vice president of ecosystem and market development at
| Motorola. The company has shipped about 9 million Linux handsets in the past
| four years and is now extending the OS down from smartphones to midrange
| handsets such as the Razr2. Â* Â* Â* Â*
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Motorola Announces Intention to Form Industry-wide Consortium to Lead OpenSAF
Project

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| The company also announced the first release of the open source code
| related to the project. The consortium also will manage any future
| development of the OpenSAF code base. Leading companies including
| Ericsson, HP and Nokia Siemens Networks have expressed support for
| this initiative.
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| The open source project will establish a broadly adopted high availability
| operating environment that can be leveraged by computing technology
| companies, Â*
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| Some of the first widely available 64-bit chips were based on Alpha,
| and Alpha was the second architecture (after x86) to support Linux,
| back in the mid-90s. Linux founder Linus Torvalds wrote the
| port himself, paving the way for ports to many other
| architectures, which quickly followed.
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| "Linux will take a significant--I'm not allowed to say 'dominant'--market
| share of mobile phone operating systems," she predicted. Motorola expects
| 60% of its phones will use a version of embedded Linux "in a short
| time," Wyatt said.
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